As senior engineering manager of Core Technology at Adobe, Vida Amani is responsible for leading multiple teams of managers, architects and engineers in developing and bringing to market leading edge software components that provide technologies to products across the company. Vida has over 25 years of progressive and diversified experience in the computer industry with the last 11 years spent at Adobe Systems holding a variety of management positions in software engineering.

Prior to joining Adobe in September 2000, Vida held a variety of technical leadership roles at Apple Inc. in Core OS division and Xerox Corporation’s Research and Development. At Apple she helped to define Mac OS X networking roadmap and its successful launch. Vida holds a MS and BS in Computer Science from University of North Texas. To learn more about Vida’s professional background please see her resume.

Vida attributes her success to her flexibility, purpose and values in life.  She loves reading, traveling and spending time on digital photography and video editing.